Dreamdays in Athens and Istanbul

This summer I went for a holiday to Greece and Turkey. I brougt my camera with me hoping to be able to collect a few more dreamdays. Sometimes I get tired of this dreamdayproject but then as soon as I get a few answers I feel all excited about the project again!

I try to bring my camera as often as I can. Not everytime I find the right occasion to start filming. On this trip I filmed at three different places. Syntagma square in Athens, Greece, Outside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul and in Beyoglu in Istanbul. They were three very different places and days.

In Athens I was alone and did not have anyone holding the camera for me. It made it a little harder but the outcome I think was good. The angle got much closer and it feels more direct. I went to Syntagma square at about 10 o clock on a Sunday morning. It was about 41C already and people were very hot, crossing the square in a rush to find shade.

I approached a few different people passing the square. Sometimes in broken Greek and othertimes in English. For some reason, both in Greece and Turkey, women where not so open to respond. The clips I am showing here are therefore mostly guys.

I Istanbul the language was a big problem. There were so many people that I really wanted to ask but when I went up to them and aksed if they spoke English almost everyone said no. The replies that I eventually collected were mostly tourists. Some with Turkish background but who where living in for example Austria or the Netherlands.
Most of them had just been inside the Blue Mosque and were quite relaxed and positive to respond.

A few days later I decided to change spot and stand on the major street in the area Beyoglu which is a trendy and more modern part of the town. Here it was very hard to find anyone speaking English. I got a few replies and then decided to call it off for the day.

Here is a clip while trying to find people to interview just outside the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sofia: